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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>That was stupid…I forgot to say
that I’m using the varnish 1.1.2-5 rpm’s from sf.net, running on centos 5.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
varnish-misc-bounces@projects.linpro.no
[mailto:varnish-misc-bounces@projects.linpro.no] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Andrew
Knapp<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 20, 2008 4:04 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> varnish-misc@projects.linpro.no<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Child dying with "Too many open files"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Hello,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I’m getting this error when running varnishd:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Child said (2, 15369): <<Assert error in wrk_thread(),
cache_pool.c line 217:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> Condition((pipe(w->pipe)) == 0) not true.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> errno = 24 (Too many open files)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Cache child died pid=15369 status=0x6<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>uname –a:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Linux <hostname> 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 #1 SMP Fri Nov 30
00:45:55 EST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>command used to start varnish:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>/usr/sbin/varnishd -d -d -a :80 -f /etc/varnish/photo.vcl -T
<internalIP>:6082 -t 120 -w 10,700,30 -s
file,/c01/varnish/varnish_storage.bin,12G -u varnish -g varnish -P
/var/run/varnish.pid<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I have NFILES=270000 set in /etc/sysconfig/varnish. Do I
just need to up that value?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Andy<o:p></o:p></p>
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